Brick Lane Flashcards
What is the location of Brick Lane ?
Ward of Banglatown and Spitalfields and the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
What is the East India Trading Company ?
An English company formed for the exploitation of trade with the east and Southwest Asia in 1600.
What is the percentage of Muslims in Spitalfields and Banglatown ?
41.5%
What are the socio-economic characteristics of Brick Lane ?
54.1% of people economically active people are employed and 7.5% unemployed. 59% of children are living in deprivation.
What are the cultural characteristics ?
Majority Muslim
What are the demographic characteristics ?
High proportion of population in economically active age (16-64), Average life expectancy higher for women than men (84 compared to 77)
What are the shifting flows of people in Brick Lane ?
French Huguenots in the 17th century trying to escape persecution.
Irish and Jewish in 19th+ 20th century trying to escape persecution.
Bengali migrants in the 20th century served in the British merchant navy, working on ships during the empire’s global trade routes, these sailors often settled near British ports.
What are the shifting flows of resources in Brick Lane ?
East India Trading Company brought spices, cotton, jute, indigos.
French Huguenots brang with them weaving and tailoring skills and 12,000 silk looms in are.
Irish and Jewish brang Tailoring and seamstresses.
What are the shifting flows of ideas in Brick Lane ?
Religion - Mosque, Chapel, Synagogue, Mosque
Different languages with different religions.
Cuisine and clothing.
What are the shifting flows of money and investment in Brick Lane ?
‘City challenge scheme,1991 to 1996 – £7.5 million to facilitate Brick Lane into an ‘emerging cultural quarter’.
‘Single regeneration’ scheme - in total £80 million of investment.
Brick Lane, Banglatown and British government policy ?
British Nationality Act 1948 defined British nationality as being a citizen of the UK and colonies which allowed migration.
Government policy in the time of the British Empire from Bengal to Brick Lane ?
Establishment of the East India Trading Company in 1600 started early migration. 18-19th century exports from bengal continued to increase and British Gov made Calcutta (a city in India) and the creation cemented the relationship between the two and by 1930s over 50,000 lascars (Sylhet-born seafarers) were employed.
What are the present connection that shape Brick Lane ?
Regeneration has improved tourism in the area, Links to the city attracts more people, Remittances back to Sylheti people.
What was the aim in rebranding Brick Lane ?
‘Banglatown’ shopping centre selling ethnic foods and crafts, more social housing, Create a cultural quarter in the East End that would replicate Chinatown for Bangladeshis.
